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| The F.3 was a development of the F.2A, with some of the former aircraft's agility being sacrificed for longer range and heavier bomb load. Approximately the same number of F.3s were built as the slightly smaller F.2As, but served in the Mediterranean as well as. from British stations. Post-war deliveries to the RAF were made as the F.5 and this became the standard reconnaissance type for several years, but was inferior to both the F.2A and F.3. A Liberty-powered variant went into production in America as the F.5L and the Japanese Navy received a small number. One company that produced F.5s, Gosport Aircraft, attempted to market a version as the Gosport G.5 for use as a passenger, mail or freight carrier, or for firefighting and transport duties in Canada and the USA, initially under the direction of Porte who had joined the staff in 1919.
| MODEL | F.5 |
| ENGINE | 2 x Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII, 261kW |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 5752 kg | 12681 lb |
| Empty weight | 4128 kg | 9101 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 31.60 m | 104 ft 8 in |
| Length | 15.01 m | 49 ft 3 in |
| Height | 5.72 m | 19 ft 9 in |
| Wing area | 130.90 m2 | 1408.99 sq ft |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 142 km/h | 88 mph |
| Ceiling | 2075 m | 6800 ft |
| ARMAMENT | 4 x 7.7m machine-guns, 417kg of bombs |
| Brian Johnston, e-mail, 27.05.2012 12:53 There is a beautifully restored nose section of one of thesse hulls in at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum. It was apparently rescued from an ignominious fate being used as a garden shed!
Brian Johnston reply | | Ray McAllister, e-mail, 15.03.2010 20:47 I am pretty sure my dad was engineer /mechanic on this flying boat in WW I. I have a picture of him showing part of the aircraft and we had half a Libertyy engine piston as an ashtray at our house till we persuaded Dad to give up smoking. The Liberty was later war surplus and used by Gar Wood in Miss America and Miss Liberty racing boats, and in a number of yachts which neede a relatively large HP engine weighing less than the ordinary engines of the day. They were probably thw first aircraft used by Aeromarine Airways, the predecessor of Pan American, with routes from Miami to Havana, Nassau, Long Island Sound and Algonac, Michigan. reply | | Ray McAllister, e-mail, 15.03.2010 20:47 I am pretty sure my dad was engineer /mechanic on this flying boat in WW I. I have a picture of him showing part of the aircraft and we had half a Libertyy engine piston as an ashtray at our house till we persuaded Dad to give up smoking. The Liberty was later war surplus and used by Gar Wood in Miss America and Miss Liberty racing boats, and in a number of yachts which neede a relatively large HP engine weighing less than the ordinary engines of the day. They were probably thw first aircraft used by Aeromarine Airways, the predecessor of Pan American, with routes from Miami to Havana, Nassau, Long Island Sound and Algonac, Michigan. reply | | Ray McAllister, e-mail, 15.03.2010 20:44 I am pretty sure my dad was engineer /mechanic on this flying boat in WW I. I have a picture of him showing part of the aircraft and we had half a Libertyy engine piston as an ashtray at our house till we persuaded Dad to give up smoking. The Liberty was later war surplus and used by Gar Wood in Miss America and Miss Liberty racing boats, and in a number of yachts which neede a relatively large HP engine weighing less than the ordinary engines of the day. reply |
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